Nexus UI

Emoji Reactions, animated React component

A message with reaction chips that pop and roll their counts when tapped, plus a spring picker that adds new reactions with a layout animation.

  • Free
  • Inputs & Controls
  • Spring

Play with it

Move the controls and watch it change. Copy code gives you a snippet with only the props you changed.

Shipped the new onboarding flow

Props

PropTypeDefaultWhat it does
messageReact.ReactNode"Shipped the new onboarding flow"Text in the message bubble. Pass null to show only the reactions.
reactions{ emoji: string; count: number; reacted?: boolean }[][🚀 3, 🔥 2]Starting reactions.
emojisstring[]["👍", "❤️", "😂", "🎉", "🔥", "🚀", "👀", "🙏"]Emojis offered in the picker.
onChange(reactions: Reaction[]) => void—Called whenever the reaction list changes.
accentstring"#5b8def"Ring and tint colour for reactions you've added.
classNamestring—Extra classes on the wrapper.

Add it to your project

  1. 1

    Prepare your project

    You need Tailwind CSS and the @/import alias. If shadcn isn't set up yet, initialise it once:

    npx shadcn@latest init

    Then add the Nexus registry to your components.json (the registries key is the part that matters):

    {
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema.json",
  "style": "default",
  "rsc": true,
  "tsx": true,
  "tailwind": {
    "css": "src/app/globals.css",
    "baseColor": "neutral",
    "cssVariables": true,
    "prefix": ""
  },
  "aliases": {
    "components": "@/components",
    "utils": "@/lib/utils",
    "ui": "@/components/ui",
    "lib": "@/lib",
    "hooks": "@/hooks"
  },
  "registries": {
    "@nexus-labs": "https://www.nexus-ui.com/api/registry/{name}"
  }
}
  2. 2

    Add the component

    Run this from your project root. It adds the component, the utilities it uses and its packages.

    npx shadcn@latest add @nexus-labs/emoji-reactions
  3. 3

    Check what was added

    With the standard aliases, these files land in your project:

    components/
    emoji-reactions/
    emoji-reactions.tsx
    index.ts
  4. 4

    Copying by hand? Install the packages

    Skip this if you used the command above.

    npm install framer-motion lucide-react
  5. 5

    Use it in a page

    Import it and render it. The Code tab above has the full example.

    // app/page.tsx
import { EmojiReactions, type Reaction } from "@/components/emoji-reactions";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <main>
      <EmojiReactions />
    </main>
  );
}

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